MetaFilter posts tagged with 8bithttp://www.metafilter.com/tags/8bit
Posts tagged with '8bit' at MetaFilter.Thu, 14 Jul 2016 08:43:26 -0800Thu, 14 Jul 2016 08:43:26 -0800en-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss60The Nintendo Entertainment System is coming back to storeshttp://www.metafilter.com/160963/The%2DNintendo%2DEntertainment%2DSystem%2Dis%2Dcoming%2Dback%2Dto%2Dstores
<a href="https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Misc-/Nintendo-Classic-Mini/Nintendo-Classic-Mini-Nintendo-Entertainment-System-1124287.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=nintendoclassicmini&utm_content=announcement">Nintendo</a> has shocked the gaming community by announcing the <a href="https://www.engadget.com/2016/07/14/nintendos-classic-mini-is-a-tiny-nes-with-30-games/">Nintendo Entertainment System: NES Classic Edition</a>, a "new" version of its legendary NES hardware which will cost $59.99 in the US. It connects to your TV via HDMI and comes with that classic NES pad, which can also be used with your Wii or Wii U. The console arrives on the 11th November and will come with 30 pre-loaded titles:
<ul>Balloon Fight</ul>
<ul>BUBBLE BOBBLE</ul>
<ul>Castlevania</ul>
<ul>Castlevania II: Simon's Quest</ul>
<ul>Donkey Kong</ul>
<ul>Donkey Kong Jr.</ul>
<ul>DOUBLE DRAGON II: THE REVENGE</ul>
<ul>Dr. Mario</ul>
<ul>Excitebike</ul>
<ul>FINAL FANTASY</ul>
<ul>Galaga</ul>
<ul>GHOSTS 'N GOBLINS</ul>
<ul>GRADIUS</ul>
<ul>Ice Climber</ul>
<ul>Kid Icarus</ul>
<ul>Kirby's Adventure</ul>
<ul>Mario Bros.</ul>
<ul>MEGA MAN 2</ul>
<ul>Metroid</ul>
<ul>NINJA GAIDEN</ul>
<ul>PAC-MAN</ul>
<ul>Punch-Out!! Featuring Mr. Dream</ul>
<ul>StarTropics</ul>
<ul>SUPER C</ul>
<ul>Super Mario Bros.</ul>
<ul>Super Mario Bros. 2</ul>
<ul>Super Mario Bros. 3</ul>
<ul>TECMO BOWL</ul>
<ul>The Legend of Zelda</ul>
<ul>Zelda II: The Adventure of Link</ul> tag:metafilter.com,2016:site.160963Thu, 14 Jul 2016 08:43:26 -0800porn in the woods1, 2, 3, 4 Channels Working Overtimehttp://www.metafilter.com/158137/1%2D2%2D3%2D4%2DChannels%2DWorking%2DOvertime
Chiptune XTC covers:<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpiwsgIrQUU">Funk Pop A Roll</a>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eiJXlp7QN8">Earn Enough For Us</a>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1BXb3tjF-A">The Mayor of Simpleton</a>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZrE_H9Z_3g">Books Are Burning</a>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRm4u58SSMg">Easter Theatre</a>
</li></li></li></li></li></ul>
(via <em>Chalkhills</em> on fb.) tag:metafilter.com,2016:site.158137Thu, 24 Mar 2016 19:25:54 -0800scrussWooooooooooo! Woo wooooo!http://www.metafilter.com/157071/Wooooooooooo%2DWoo%2Dwooooo
<a href="https://vimeo.com/154629750">PUP - DVP (Official Video)</a> (SLVimeo) tag:metafilter.com,2016:site.157071Fri, 12 Feb 2016 10:42:01 -0800slaterYour P-value is in another castlehttp://www.metafilter.com/156760/Your%2DP%2Dvalue%2Dis%2Din%2Danother%2Dcastle
<a href="http://guessthecorrelation.com/">Guess the Correlation:</a> The aim of the game is simple. Try to guess how correlated the two variables in a scatter plot are. The closer your guess is to the true correlation, the better. tag:metafilter.com,2016:site.156760Mon, 01 Feb 2016 06:59:26 -0800Cash4LeadLife is unfairhttp://www.metafilter.com/153946/Life%2Dis%2Dunfair
<a href="http://www.alecrobbins.com/malcolm/malcolm.html">An 8-bit <i>Malcolm in the Middle</i> game</a>, in 2015, for some reason, by <a href="https://twitter.com/alecrobbins">Alec Robbins</a> tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.153946Sun, 18 Oct 2015 21:45:50 -0800naju웃 i am not here and this is not really happening.http://www.metafilter.com/153507/%2Di%2Dam%2Dnot%2Dhere%2Dand%2Dthis%2Dis%2Dnot%2Dreally%2Dhappening
After the triumph of <em><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/117015/Sing-us-a-Song-to-Keep-us-Warm-Theres-Such-a-Chill" title="My post on OKC from 2012">OK Computer</a></em>, Radiohead fell into a creative tailspin -- and frontman Thom Yorke into a nervous breakdown. Exhausted from touring, hounded by press, and jaded by copycats, he escaped into the electronica scene pioneered by <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/04/30/sound-machine" title="The New Yorker on Kraftwerk">Kraftwerk</a> and <a href="http://www.self-titledmag.com/2009/09/04/the-color-purple-from-aphex-twin-to-autechre-chris-cunningham-to-boards-of-canada-steve-beckett-gives-us-a-guide-to-warps-20-years/" title="Warp Records: A to Z">Warp Records</a> -- fertile ground, the band discovered. Trading spacey rock for apocalyptic brooding, they teased their new sound not with singles or music videos but with <a href="http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/how-radioheads-kid-a-kicked-off-the-streaming-revolution/" title="Grantland: How Kid A kicked off the streaming revolution">innovative web streaming</a> and <a href="https://vimeo.com/28222629" title="Kid A blips produced by Shynola">cryptic, dreamlike "blips"</a> -- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewCVuPVm21A" title="'Valley Two' blip">winterlands</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ2nQFaV0ao" title="'White Mountains' blip">flocks of cubes</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVSC5PVBzzA" title="'Eyes' blip">eyeballs</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yU45AIZjOw" title="'Flying Bears' blip">bears</a>. After nearly breaking up over tracklist angst, they <a href="http://www.popmatters.com/feature/132583-the-art-of-falling-apart-kid-a-and-amnesiac-separated-at-birth/" title="'Kid A' and 'Amnesiac' -- Separated at Birth">cut the kid in half</a>. Thus <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/how-radiohead-shocked-the-world-a-15th-anniversary-salute-to-kid-a-20151002" title="RS: How Radiohead Shocked the World: A 15th-Anniversary Salute to 'Kid A'">fifteen years ago</a> today, <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ6ThmbPtkw&list=PL67y-alyKlu_JCE1v_6TaI9F4Uk7P_v5n" title="Kid A official YouTube playlist (see inside for non-U.S. alternatives)">Kid A</a></i> and (later) <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eApcYdRyThg&list=PL67y-alyKlu89iT2vqSkwxrR26K6JEx23" title="Amnesiac official YouTube playlist (see inside for non-U.S. alternatives)">Amnesiac</a></i> debuted, a confounding mix of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onRk0sjSgFU" title="Kid A - 'Everything In Its Right Place'">electronic fugue</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAF8D0ugyVk" title="Kid A - 'How to Disappear Completely'">whalesong</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNqv3nHyteM" title="Kid A - 'Idioteque'">pulsing IDM</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbKQPqs-cqc" title="Amnesiac - 'Pyramid Song'">drunken piano</a>, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLPE164XG6E&t=36s" title="The only live performance of 'Life in a Glasshouse'">epic jazz funeral</a> whose insights into <a href="http://obscuro.doccler.com/i-am-not-here-and-this-is-not-really-happening" title="A student blogger on how some short lyrics changed his life">anxiety</a>, <a href="http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2015/02/fifteen-years-radioheads-kid-best-evocation-failures-new-labour" title="NS: Fifteen years on, Radiohead's Kid A is the best evocation of the failures of New Labour">political dysfunction</a>, and <a href="http://exileonmoanstreet.blogspot.com/2009/11/00s-how-idioteque-explains-decade.html" title="The '00s: How 'Idioteque' explains a decade">climate crisis</a> would make it one of the <a href="http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/6656-kid-a/" title="Pitchfork's famously gushing 'perfect 10' review">most revered albums</a> of the twenty-first century. See the documentary <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x22lufu_reflections-on-kid-a-radiohead-documentary_shortfilms" title="Apologies for the audio sync issues here"><i><em>Reflections on</em> Kid A</i></a> for interviews and live cuts, or look inside for much more. Alternative album links: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvet_E4JgLo"><em>Kid A</em></a> - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xagBSgRAu3k"><em>Amnesiac</em></a>
TVTropes: <a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/KidA"><em>Kid A</em></a> - <a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/Amnesiac"><em>Amnesiac</em></a>
From Tumblr user patrickscarn, <a href="http://patrickscarn.tumblr.com/tagged/Kid-A">full scans of all the liner art for <em>Kid A</em></a> and <a href="http://patrickscarn.tumblr.com/tagged/Amnesiac"><em>Amnesiac</em></a>. See also: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml6ucH1OBco"><em>Kid A</em>'s "hidden" booklet</a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iNjNr2HKSA">A longer compilation of <em>Kid A</em>'s blips</a>, or <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL238FAE42E607BB54">in playlist form</a> (or <a href="http://pulk-pull.org/video-sundries/kid-a-antivideos/">a downloadable one</a>). The University of Washington's Joseph Tate wrote at length about the campaign: <a href="http://pmc.iath.virginia.edu/issue.502/12.3tate.html">Radiohead's Antivideos: Works of Art in the Age of Electronic Reproduction</a>. Tate also maintains <a href="http://pulk-pull.org/about-2/">fansite Pulk-Pull.org</a>, which collects several hundred posts of musings and theories.
Wanna beanplate? Enjoy Dr. Marianne Letts' book-length dissertation: <a href="http://www.library.utexas.edu/etd/d/2005/lettsm76116/lettsm76116.pdf">How to Disappear Completely: Radiohead and the Resistant Concept Album</a> [PDF]. Or if you prefer <em>Amnesiac</em>, try <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20020112124456/http://www.lastplanetojakarta.com/head1.html">John Darnielle's defense of the album</a> (navigation in the bottom-right corner; discussed <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/15312/">previously</a>).
Or take it from the horse's mouth: <a href="http://www.mtv.com/bands/archive/r/radiohead00/">MTV's web interviews</a> - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abcYbYqZtyM">interview clips from the documentary <em>Reflections on Kid A</em></a> - <a href="http://taminogruber.com/icyeyes/rolling.htm">the band discusses <em>Amnesiac</em></a>
More recently, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/indieheads/comments/30esom/essential_album_of_the_week_10_radiohead_kid_a/">the fans of /r/indieheads reminisce</a>
Notable album covers:
<ul><li><a href="https://clyp.it/3jsohjuv">Quinton Sung's masterful 8-bit rendition</a></li>
<li>Christopher O'Riley's elegant piano covers: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XNE00sdhmQ">"Everything in its Right Place"</a> - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXuJXGJ_34k">"Motion Picture Soundtrack"</a> [<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4SS2gQnZl8">alt</a>] - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWyNPysgERU">"Knives Out"</a> [<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnEPfIwcokc">alt</a>] - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9uNitvsGlU">"Like Spinning Plates"</a> [<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJS5NupD2Sg">alt</a>] - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfuD2UqZGLE">"Cuttooth"</a></li>
<li>The Vitamin String Quartet's <em><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx_1V24G6wM&list=PLgA5dxCUfa5icpfoWThgvrYpzol_HW5li">Strung Out on Kid A</a></em></li>
<li><em><a href="https://mupresents.bandcamp.com/album/kid-mu">Kid Mu</a></em>, a whole-album cover from the /mu/tants of 4chan's music board
<li>Lullaby covers from Rockabye Baby: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ristjTmi-Io">"Everything in its Right Place"</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dOW5eFnt70">"Knives Out"</a> (more <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkRM3S4Q5c5EcMwoBQn1EL-7RL7IzPVv4">here</a>)</li></li></ul>
If you prefer live, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj-Rsl8brt8">there's a fantastic set from Jools Holland in 2001</a> featuring <em>Kid/Amnesiac</em> tracks plus a sampling of older material. Includes: Jonny discombobulating the bejeesus out of Thom with his little sampling gizmo on EIIRP! A great take on Dollars &amp; Cents! Talk Show Host! The best version of Life in a Glasshouse, with full backing for the first and only time live from the Humphrey Lyttelton Band! And more, so much more. Look for individual track links later. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/AustinBrock/videos">Superfan Austin Brock</a> is a superb source of live concert videos like these.
PopMatters assembled <a href="http://www.popmatters.com/special/section/all-things-reconsidered-the-10th-anniversary-of-radioheads-kid-a/">a lovely collection of retrospective essays</a> on all aspects of <em>Kid A</em> for its tenth anniversary in 2010:
<ul><li><a href="http://www.popmatters.com/tools/print/132580/">Between the Grooves of Radiohead&apos;s &apos;Kid A&apos;</a> - Ten writers tackle each track on Radiohead's <em>Kid A</em> (yes, even the bonus blip at the end), and we soon discover how, truly, everything is in its right place </li>
<li><a href="http://www.popmatters.com/tools/print/132585/">What Was It That You Tried to Say? The Degeneration of the Voice in &apos;Kid A&apos;</a> - For being one of the defining albums of its time, <em>Kid A</em> certainly doesn't have much to say -- or at least that's what the band wants you to think. The band's thoughts on losing one's voice in an increasingly individualistic society suddenly takes on a much greater potency.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.popmatters.com/feature/132582-heres-looking-at-you-kid-the-echoes-of-kid-a/">Here&apos;s Looking at You, Kid: The Echoes of &apos;Kid A&apos;</a> - Most critics didn't give <em>Kid A</em> great marks upon its initial release. So, what has lead to such a drastic act of historical revisionism wherein we now call it the Album of the Decade? It seems that the album's influence echoes farther than we initially thought.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.popmatters.com/feature/132584-how-to-sidestep-expectations-completely/">How to Sidestep Expectations Completely</a> - Before its release, virtually every professional critic and music know-it-all knew exactly what <em>Kid A</em> was going to sound like, and virtually every single one of them was wrong. In order to understand where the album came from, you have to understand where Radiohead wanted to go.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.popmatters.com/feature/132583-the-art-of-falling-apart-kid-a-and-amnesiac-separated-at-birth/">The Art of Falling Apart: &apos;Kid A&apos; and &apos;Amnesiac&apos; -- Separated at Birth</a> - They were recorded at the same time. The songs came from the same creative place. Hell, they even share a song between them ("Morning Bell"). So why does <em>Amnesiac</em> seem to always be dwarfed by the shadow of <em>Kid A</em> in comparison?</li>
<li><a href="http://www.popmatters.com/feature/132586-youre-living-in-a-fantasy-the-art-of-kid-a/">You&apos;re Living in a Fantasy: The Art of &apos;Kid A&apos;</a> - The "Demon Bear" logo really took its time in the spotlight for the release of <em>Kid A</em>, but as long-standing Radiohead artist Stanley Donwood tells it, much of <em>Kid A</em>'s abstract visual style comes from a very real, very frightening place. Arnold Pan explores.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.popmatters.com/feature/132581-kid-a-the-audio-file/">&apos;Kid A&apos;: The Audio File</a> - Last year, Thomas Britt reviewed Capitol's "Special Collector" reissues of the band's latter-day albums. With a brand new introduction, Britt takes us back to how life intersected art for him during those first few listens</li>
<li><a href="http://www.popmatters.com/feature/132587-i-might-be-wrong-a-personal-journey-inspired-by-kid-a/">I Might Be Wrong: A Personal Journey Inspired By &apos;Kid A&apos;</a> - Artist Song-Ming Ang was inspired by Radiohead to become a musician, but after repeating cyclical routines, turned to finding inspiration in other ways, <em>Kid A</em> being the tipping point for numerous musical discoveries as well as personal ones. This is Song-Ming Ang's story.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.popmatters.com/feature/132588-the-spiritual-mechanisms-in-kid-a/">The Spiritual Mechanisms in &apos;Kid A&apos;</a> - In this very personal interpretation of the meaning behind the album, Iulia Alexandra Nedea argues that behind the cold textures, <em>Kid A</em> actually tells a story about our losing our sense of spirituality in an increasingly isolated world, and what it means for all of us</li>
<li><a href="http://www.popmatters.com/tools/print/132589/">The Best You Can Is Good Enough: Radiohead vs. The Corporate Machine</a> - PopMatters' coverage of <em>Kid A</em>'s 10th anniversary concludes with an exclusive excerpt from Marvin Lin's forthcoming 33 1/3 book about the album, here discussing why the band decided to abandon all conventional publicity mechanisms to promote the album, and what such gestures ultimately said about the band's mindset at the time</li></ul>
A bit of humo(u)r: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHS3ci9H_Uc">"I think <em>Kid A</em> is a bit weird."</a>
And comics: <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uI9HEK35VSk/TbgPX8Ug3QI/AAAAAAAAAY8/M8eINWoSPeg/s1600/1289656223384.png">The Making of <em>Kid A</em></a> - <a href="http://i.imgur.com/guDT2F5.jpg">First time listening to <em>Kid A</em></a>
And now... to the songs:
░█─▄▀ ▀█▀ ░█▀▀▄ ─█▀▀█
░█▀▄─ ░█─ ░█─░█ ░█▄▄█
░█─░█ ▄█▄ ░█▄▄▀ ░█─░█
<i>"Something traumatic is happening in Kid A... "</i>
[album art: <a href="https://secure.static.tumblr.com/81d00ca294fce95f29e8347d079ca9f8/pg0jprp/uJTn3rufq/tumblr_static_kid_a.jpg">volcanic mountains</a>, under which <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwcFmtoy5Bs">something of primordial power stirs...</a>]
<b>1</b> | <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onRk0sjSgFU">"Everything In Its Right Place"</a> (<a href="http://genius.com/Radiohead-everything-in-its-right-place-lyrics">lyrics</a> - <a href="http://citizeninsane.eu/eiirp.html">notes</a>)
<blockquote><i>"What? What is that you tried to say?
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;What? What was that you *tried* to say?"</i>
The one that started it all, EIIRP was immediately striking for its clear abandonment of guitar in favor of layered electronic tones. Yorke's voice is sliced and diced throughout, endlessly scattered and reversed as the synths swell. "Sucking on a lemon" refers to his sour mood late in the soul-sucking OKC tour. Made a cameo appearance in <em><a href="https://vimeo.com/26226057">Vanilla Sky</a></em>. Don't miss the live version, where Jonny Greenwood <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB_LALQpD6s">discombobulates Yorke's vocals in real time!</a>
</blockquote>
<b>2</b> | <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RwvZSfLUXM">"Kid A"</a> (<a href="http://genius.com/Radiohead-kid-a-lyrics">lyrics</a> - <a href="http://citizeninsane.eu/kid-a.html">notes</a>)
<blockquote><i>"Standing in the shadows at the end of my bed..."</i>
A deceptively soothing musicbox soon devolves into the stuff of nightmares, as a heavily processed voice warbles about shadow people and heads on sticks, and an ominous reference to the Pied Piper of Hamelin leading the children away. While the lyrics were largely drawn from a hat (literally), they evoked <a href="http://citizeninsane.eu/images/ventriloquist.jpg">imagery so disturbing</a> Yorke refused to sing it straight. As far as the song (and album) title, he suggests it's related to <a href="http://citizeninsane.eu/kid-aquotes.htm">the first human clone</a>, but it's never been quite clear how. <a href="https://vimeo.com/12818844">Here's a charming cover on acoustic instruments.</a></blockquote>
<b>3</b> | <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDAjFstQrTk">"The National Anthem"</a> (<a href="http://genius.com/Radiohead-the-national-anthem-lyrics">lyrics</a> - <a href="http://citizeninsane.eu/thenationalanthem.html">notes</a>)
<blockquote><i>"Everyone has got the fear... it's holding on!"</i>
Based on a riff Yorke wrote when he was 16, the lyrics evoke societal isolation and paranoia amidst an increasingly chaotic swarm of horns (a possible tribute to the Beatles' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Day_in_the_Life#Orchestra">"A Day in the Life"</a>). Not being classically trained, Yorke and fellow guitarist Jonny Greenwood directed the Mingus-inspired jazz band by telling them to play like a murderously angry traffic jam. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoC-hX8Ijik">Here's a nice live version done for the BBC.</a>
</blockquote>
<b>4</b> | <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAF8D0ugyVk">"How to Disappear Completely"</a> (<a href="http://genius.com/Radiohead-how-to-disappear-completely-lyrics">lyrics</a> - <a href="http://citizeninsane.eu/htdc.html">notes</a>)
<blockquote><i>"I walk through walls... I float down the Liffey...
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I'm not here... this isn't happening..."</i>
In the stressful depths of the OKC tour, R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe shared his personal Litany Against Fear with Yorke: <em><a href="http://files.doccler.com/1143/images/thumbs/large_cover_I%27mNotHereandthisisnotreallyhappening.png">I am not here and this is not really happening.</a></em> His words echo through this beautiful track, strings and trumpet arpeggios swelling and receding as a dissociating Yorke uses the mantra to talk himself through a deafening concert of "strobelights and blown speakers, fireworks and hurricanes." <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If47eIpWWa0">Enjoy this glorious live version from a 2001 Paris show.</a>
</blockquote>
<b>5</b> | <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlnR_U8K1rs">"Treefingers"</a> (<s>lyrics</s> - <a href="http://citizeninsane.eu/treefingers.html">notes</a>)
<blockquote>Ten minutes of guitar noodling stretched and layered into a soothing wordless interlude.</blockquote>
<b>6</b> | <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogLycHY_4nU">"Optimistic"</a> (<a href="http://genius.com/Radiohead-optimistic-lyrics">lyrics</a> - <a href="http://citizeninsane.eu/optimistic.html">notes</a>)
<blockquote><i>"I'd really like to help you man, I'd really like to help you man...
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Nervous messed up marionette, floating around on a prison ship..."</i>
The album's closest thing to a conventional rock song, referencing war, loneliness, and potential human extinction. "The best you can is good enough" was inspired by reassurances Yorke's partner Rachel Owen gave that they were on the right track.
</blockquote>
<b>7</b> | <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6-sTkVdAqQ">"In Limbo"</a> (<a href="http://genius.com/Radiohead-in-limbo-lyrics">lyrics</a> - <a href="http://citizeninsane.eu/inlimbo.html">notes</a>)
<blockquote><i>"Lundy, Fastnet, Irish Sea:
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I got a message I can't read..."</i>
Far more languid and jazzy, this piece opens with a reference to areas in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipping_Forecast">the BBC's hypnotic shipping forecast</a>, alluding to a lonely sailor adrift in the North Sea, bombarded with unintelligible messages.
</blockquote>
<b>8</b> | <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNqv3nHyteM">"Idioteque"</a> (<a href="http://genius.com/Radiohead-idioteque-lyrics">lyrics</a> - <a href="http://citizeninsane.eu/idioteque.html">notes</a>)
<blockquote><i>"Who's in the bunker, who's in the bunker?
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I have seen to much -- you haven't seen enough!"</i>
This thumping bass number rails passionately against greed and environmental destruction, from the false balance of "let me hear both sides" to the frightening indulgence of being allowed "everything all of the time." Notably samples <a href="http://paul.mycpanel.princeton.edu/radiohead.ml.html">Paul Lansky</a>'s 1973 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZDxMb4nago&t=42s">"Mild und Leise,"</a> an important early example of electronic music. The live version is a must, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8M-Moo4imQ">if only for Thom's crazy dance.</a>
</blockquote>
<b>9</b> | <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAwGWptsOls">"Morning Bell"</a> (<a href="http://genius.com/Radiohead-morning-bell-lyrics">lyrics</a> - <a href="http://citizeninsane.eu/morningbell.html">notes</a>)
<blockquote><i>"Howling down the chimney:
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'Release me... release me... please...'"</i>
Often speculated to be about divorce, Yorke has actually stated it was <a href="http://citizeninsane.eu/morningbellquotes.htm">inspired by a "haunted house"</a> where a lightning strike erased hours of material; this track's melody was the only one he could remember. Later reprised in different form on <em>Amnesiac</em>.
</blockquote>
<b>10</b> | <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ju8xO_Zvfo">"Motion Picture Soundtrack"</a> (<a href="http://genius.com/Radiohead-motion-picture-soundtrack-lyrics">lyrics</a> - <a href="http://citizeninsane.eu/motionpicturesoundtrack.html">notes</a>)
<blockquote><i>"I think you're crazy... maybe.
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I will see you... in the next life!"</i>
Another song with old roots, this album capper uses an antique harmonium to ape the treacly melodrama of classic Disney soundtracks in a heartbreaking tale of suicide and regret ending with an angelic Mellotron choir. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwVvITg4IHc">Used to powerful effect</a> at the end of the film <i>I Origins</i>, when the protagonist reunites with his soul mate. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EayN_Jj0740">Don't miss this luscious cover by a masterful violin quartet.</a>
Bonus: There is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c1u6ofZB7g">a hidden track on the album</a>, sometimes called "GenChildren" after the first tracker to leak it. Perhaps a life flashing before one's eyes?
</blockquote>
─█▀▀█ ░█▀▄▀█ ░█▄─░█ ░█▀▀▀ ░█▀▀▀█ ▀█▀ ─█▀▀█ ░█▀▀█
░█▄▄█ ░█░█░█ ░█░█░█ ░█▀▀▀ ─▀▀▀▄▄ ░█─ ░█▄▄█ ░█───
░█─░█ ░█──░█ ░█──▀█ ░█▄▄▄ ░█▄▄▄█ ▄█▄ ░█─░█ ░█▄▄█
<i>"...this is looking back at it, trying to piece together what has happened."</i>
[album art: <a href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/A12S5KwzqmL._SL1500_.jpg">a forgotten library book</a>, with its frayed cover bearing constellations and a crying minotaur. The award-winning collector's edition actually <a href="http://www.hardformat.org/481/radiohead-amnesiac/">came with a physical book</a>.]
<b>1</b> | <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlkAhrcDBaM">"Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box"</a> (<a href="http://genius.com/Radiohead-packt-like-sardines-in-a-crushd-tin-box-lyrics">lyrics</a> - <a href="http://citizeninsane.eu/packtlikesardines.html">notes</a>)
<blockquote><i>"I'm a reasonable man
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Get off my case"</i>
This clangorous opener -- with drummer Phil Selway banging on literal kitchen pans -- was <a href="http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=9184">inspired by the tense traffic jams of central Paris</a>, with the curt spelling furthering the feeling of claustrophobia.
</blockquote>
<b>2</b> | <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbKQPqs-cqc">"Pyramid Song"</a> (<a href="http://genius.com/Radiohead-pyramid-song-lyrics">lyrics</a> - <a href="http://citizeninsane.eu/pyramidsong.html">notes</a>)
<blockquote><i>"I jumped in the river, and what did I see?
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Black-eyed angels swam with me..."</i>
This beautifully warped piano ballad, inspired by Egyptian iconography, throws you off kilter with its odd time signature -- but <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3dVLi7QJQc">speed it up and you have a catchy syncopated tune</a>. At least one fan has <a href="http://i.imgur.com/Q53Xg.png">a brilliant theory about the title</a>. Also features <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2VzLn6DMCE">an interesting CGI music video</a>.
</blockquote>
<b>3</b> | <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9L5zbaQML0">"Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors"</a> (<a href="http://genius.com/Radiohead-pulk-pull-revolving-doors-lyrics">lyrics</a> - <a href="http://citizeninsane.eu/pulkpull.html">notes</a>)
<blockquote><i>"There are trapdoors.
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;That you can't come back from."</i>
An ominous industrial track that rambles about different kinds of doors, like a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJgi7pcUBbk">Wonderland hallway of endless passages</a>. EMI later produced <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0efsy07dCEs">a strange music video</a> featuring an enigmatic machine and a baby, segueing into the appropriately creepy "Like Spinning Plates" (discussed below).
</blockquote>
<b>4</b> | <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoJWarjQQrc">"You and Whose Army?"</a> (<a href="http://genius.com/Radiohead-you-and-whose-army-lyrics">lyrics</a> - <a href="http://citizeninsane.eu/youandwhosearmy.html">notes</a>)
<blockquote><i>"Come on if you think you can take us on..."</i>
A deliberate homage to the warm, wet sounds of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l6vqPUM_FE">The Ink Spots</a> of the 1940s -- and a deliberate attack on the betrayal of <a href="http://citizeninsane.eu/youandwhosearmyquotes.htm">Tony Blair's "New Labour" government</a> in its rightward shift. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8ilZUx1LlY">A nice live take from 2001.</a>
</blockquote>
<b>5</b> | <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uN1Uq5lyv0">"I Might Be Wrong"</a> (<a href="http://genius.com/Radiohead-i-might-be-wrong-lyrics">lyrics</a> - <a href="http://citizeninsane.eu/imightbewrong.html">notes</a>)
<blockquote><i>"I used to think there was no future left at all.
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I used to think."</i>
A more straightforward guitar number, its lyrics reference Buddhist myths about the cycle of life as reflected in a passage from the novel <em>Siddharta</em>:
<blockquote>"They all became part of the river. It was the goal of all of them, yearning, desiring, suffering; and the river's voice was full of longing, full of smarting woe, full of insatiable desire. The river flowed on towards to its goal. Siddhartha saw the river hasten, made up of himself and his relatives and all the people he had ever seen. All the waves and water hastened, suffering, towards goals, many goals, to the waterfall, to the sea, to the current, to the ocean and all the goals were reached and each one was succeeded by another. The water changed to vapour and rose, became rain and came down again, became spring, brook and river, changed anew, flowed anew. But the yearning voice had altered. It still echoed sorrowfully, searchingly but other voices accompanied it, voices of pleasure and sorrow, good and evil voices, laughing and lamenting voices, hundreds of voices, thousands of voices..."</blockquote></blockquote>
<b>6</b> | <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SZ1WpzBr9E">"Knives Out"</a> (<a href="http://genius.com/Radiohead-knives-out-lyrics">lyrics</a> - <a href="http://citizeninsane.eu/knivesout.html">notes</a>)
<blockquote><i>"Don't look down
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Shove it in your mouth"</i>
Another more straightforward rock song -- albeit one about cannibalism. The band felt so unsure about playing it straight that they worked on it for over a year before stopping. Notably <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CntTAvBKYk">borrows a guitar line</a> from OKC's "Paranoid Android." Also, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ1iMQA0egc">the music video is strangely charming.</a>
</blockquote>
<b>7</b> | <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPQfiH78XaE">"Morning Bell (Amnesiac)"</a> (<a href="http://genius.com/Radiohead-morning-bell-lyrics">lyrics</a> - <a href="http://citizeninsane.eu/morningbell.html">notes</a>)
<blockquote><i>"Round and round and round and round and round!"</i>
The original <em>Kid A</em> track, resurrected into a somewhat brighter and more uplifting mode.
</blockquote>
<b>8</b> | <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_v2OsC9yT0">"Dollars &amp; Cents"</a> (<a href="http://genius.com/Radiohead-dollars-and-cents-lyrics">lyrics</a> - <a href="http://citizeninsane.eu/dollarsandcents.html">notes</a>)
<blockquote><i>"There are weapons we can use
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Be constructive with your blues"</i>
An extended improvisational jam session backed by stirring strings stings. The lyrics are plaintive and often indecipherable, but are said to deal with the depredations of global capitalism, decrying the death of the environment, longing for "peace and honesty" and to walk in the "children's land" while an unnamed oppressor shouts it all down. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5wTaRYNhto">Here's a great live take from the BBC set.</a>
</blockquote>
<b>9</b> | <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9gWz2yJeSE">"Hunting Bears"</a> (<s>lyrics</s> - <a href="http://citizeninsane.eu/huntingbears.html">notes</a>)
<blockquote>Another mellow instrumental -- and a good place to note the Modified Bear. These genetically modified abominations feature heavily in <em>Kid A</em>'s blips, and serve as a sort of <a href="https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=modified+bear&tbm=isch&gws_rd=ssl">unofficial logo</a> for the band amongst fans. They originally came from <a href="http://citizeninsane.eu/modifiedbears.htm">this dark cartoon series</a> by longtime collaborator Stanley Donwood.
</blockquote>
<b>10</b> | <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxQ5zbvxVj0">"Like Spinning Plates"</a> (<a href="http://genius.com/Radiohead-like-spinning-plates-lyrics">lyrics</a> - <a href="http://citizeninsane.eu/likespinningplates.html">notes</a>)
<blockquote><i>"I'm living in Cloud Cuckoo Land..."</i>
Arguably the most experimental track, this features vocals <a href="http://citizeninsane.eu/likespinningplates.html">sung backwards and reversed</a> to produce its strangely wavering lines. Personally, I was never a huge fan of this track... <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI6s4oiHKCw">until I saw Mike Masse knock this cover version out of the park.</a>
</blockquote>
<b>11</b> | <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtkZxqTH9tE">"Life in a Glasshouse"</a> (<a href="http://genius.com/Radiohead-life-in-a-glasshouse-lyrics">lyrics</a> - <a href="http://citizeninsane.eu/lifeinaglasshouse.html">notes</a>)
<blockquote><i>"Well, of course I'd like to sit around and chat...
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;But someone's listening in..."</i>
The show-stopping final number, featuring the acclaimed Humphrey Lyttelton Band jazz ensemble, takes the form of the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzcpUdBw7gs">St. James Infirmary Blues</a> by way of a riotous New Orleans jazz funeral. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLPE164XG6E">It was only performed live once, buy it was a doozy</a>. Also features an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wKnuqYrjjE">extended intro version</a>. The track <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOqrJong0Pk">cameo'd</a> in the 2006 sci-fi masterpiece <em>Children of Men</em>.
</blockquote>
<em>Amnesiac</em> also boasted a number of great B-sides:<br>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLitnT6w9h0">"Cuttooth"</a> (<a href="http://genius.com/Radiohead-the-amazing-sounds-of-orgy-lyrics">lyrics</a> - <a href="http://citizeninsane.eu/cuttooth.html">notes</a>)</li>
<blockquote><i>"I dont know why i feel so tongue tied
I dont know why i feel so skinned alive!"</i>
A rollicking number about seeking identity that segues into the sound of railroad tracks in the home stretch.</blockquote>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5LT9X9F-YM">"The Amazing Sounds of Orgy"</a> (<a href="http://genius.com/Radiohead-the-amazing-sounds-of-orgy-lyrics">lyrics</a> - <a href="http://citizeninsane.eu/amazingsoundsoforgy.html">notes</a>)</li>
<blockquote><i>"The amazing sound of the killing hordes
The day the banks collapsed on us"</i>
This sultry cabaret piece sketches out a horrifying vision of social collapse. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T30uea7OOAg">A rare live take from 2012</a>.</blockquote>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3poV6FSHM8">"Trans-Atlantic Drawl"</a> (<a href="http://genius.com/Radiohead-trans-atlantic-drawl-lyrics">lyrics</a> - <a href="http://citizeninsane.eu/transatlanticdrawl.html">notes</a>)</li>
<blockquote><i>"Do you see light at the end of the tunnel?"</i>
A fast-paced track riffing on an old Gulf War quote: "We dont see any light at the end of the tunnel. There is a tunnel after the tunnel."</blockquote>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GLI2C9ruFE">"Fast-Track"</a> (<a href="http://genius.com/Radiohead-fast-track-lyrics">lyrics</a> - <a href="http://citizeninsane.eu/fasttrack.html">notes</a>)</li>
<blockquote><i>"ching-ching-ching"</i>
A jittery bit playing off <a href="http://citizeninsane.eu/images/dchild033small.jpg">this Donwood artwork</a>.
</blockquote>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmJSO_zG9lQ">"Kinetic"</a> (<a href="http://genius.com/Radiohead-kinetic-lyrics">lyrics</a> - <a href="http://citizeninsane.eu/kinetic.html">notes</a>)</li>
<blockquote><i>"Don't fall asleep at the wheel..."</i>
A soothingly swaying with ominous undertones, about being manipulated by powerful forces.
</blockquote>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBUW3q5vv3E">"Worrywort"</a> (<a href="http://genius.com/Radiohead-worrywort-lyrics">lyrics</a> - <a href="http://citizeninsane.eu/worrywort.html">notes</a>)</li>
<blockquote><i>"There's no use dwelling on, on what might have been
Just think of all the fun you could be having"</i>
Arguably Radiohead's happiest song -- a bubbly chiptune number full of optimistic assurances to seize the day.
</blockquote>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxh5rq_CGJI">"Fog"</a> (<a href="http://genius.com/Radiohead-fog-lyrics">lyrics</a> - <a href="http://citizeninsane.eu/fog.html">notes</a>)</li>
<blockquote><i>"How did you go bad?"</i>
A cryptically sad ballad about childhood innocence lost -- or perhaps losing a child altogether.
</blockquote>
Final bonus, ye weary traveler: <a href="http://www.modernhumorist.com/mh/0009/radiohead/">a dispatch from the darkest timeline.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.153507Fri, 02 Oct 2015 11:45:19 -0800RhaomiC= C= COMMODORE FOREVAR C= C=http://www.metafilter.com/153299/C%2DC%2DCOMMODORE%2DFOREVAR%2DC%2DC
Here's a retro computing oddity, info on the first portable color computer, the <a href="http://www.oldcomputers.net/sx64.html">Commodore</a> <a href="http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/ckb/secret/exec.html">SX</a><a href="http://computermuseum.50megs.com/brands/sx64.htm">64</a>, with a 5 1/4-inch floppy drive and a <i>seriously</i> tiny CRT monitor. Here's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCO_3KXMde4">a demonstration and teardown</a>. Here's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOQQ5CebiwQ">a somewhat ridiculous commercial for it</a>. Commodore had a lot of <a href="http://www.mos6502.com/friday-commodore/to-market-or-not-to-market-commodores-prototypes-of-1985/">unreleased prototypes</a>, but the SX actually made it to market. Not a prototype but still interesting is <a href="http://www.6502.org/users/sjgray/projects/colourpet/">Steve Gray's hack on an old monochrome Commodore PET to display color</a>. And he also has <a href="http://www.6502.org/users/sjgray/computer/brochures/index.html">an archive of old Commodore brochures</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.153299Thu, 24 Sep 2015 13:46:28 -0800JHarrisDO NOTHING WHICH IS OF NO USE :Dhttp://www.metafilter.com/151444/DO%2DNOTHING%2DWHICH%2DIS%2DOF%2DNO%2DUSE%2DD
<blockquote><a href="http://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php">PICO-8</a> is a fantasy console for making, sharing and playing tiny games and other computer programs. When you turn it on, the machine greets you with a shell for typing in Lua commands and provides simple built-in tools for creating your own cartridges.</blockquote>
What does that mean? PICO-8 is like an emulator for a lo-fi game console that never actually existed. With 16 colors, 128x128, 4 channels of sound, and tight data limits, PICO-8 "cartridges" can be played -- and created -- in a web browser, or on just about any home computer, and even inside maker <a href="https://twitter.com/lexaloffle">Lexaloffle</a>'s other, more full-featured fantasy console, <a href="http://www.lexaloffle.com/voxatron.php">Voxatron</a>. <blockquote> The harsh limitations of PICO-8 are carefully chosen to be fun to work with, encourage small but expressive designs and hopefully to give PICO-8 cartridges their own particular look and feel.</blockquote>
A gallery of PICO-8 games is available on the "<a href="http://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?cat=7&sub=2">BBS</a>." (<a href="http://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?cat=7&sub=2&orderby=rating">Sorting by rating</a> foregrounds some rather polished offerings. Try <a href="http://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=2145">Celeste</a>, or <a href="http://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=1867">P.A.T. Shooter</a>.) Source and assets for these games can be modified in browser and the results played immediately (errr, or not -- maybe they can't be or maybe I just don't see how; anyway, this can be done in-place on the desktop application).
PICO-8 is available to owners of Voxatron -- I discovered I had unknowingly bought it in a Humble Bundle, an indeterminate while ago. PICO-8 BBS games can be played for free.
Previously, in toy languages for computer games: <a href="https://www.metafilter.com/132610/PuzzleScript">PuzzleScript</a>, <a href="https://metatalk.metafilter.com/23718/105-Have-Fun-At-Space-Camp#1205082">TIS-100</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.151444Wed, 22 Jul 2015 11:08:20 -0800grobsteinA working 65 is the Holy Grail of the Commodore 8-bit worldhttp://www.metafilter.com/147080/A%2Dworking%2D65%2Dis%2Dthe%2DHoly%2DGrail%2Dof%2Dthe%2DCommodore%2D8%2Dbit%2Dworld
<a href="http://www.zimmers.net/cbmpics/c65.html">The Commodore 65</a> (aka C64DX or C64DX Development System) was never officially released. <a href="http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/ckb/secret/65.html">Prototypes escaped development hell</a> when Commodore was liquidated in 1994, and 200 have survived to this day. The complete manual <a href="http://www.zimmers.net/cbmpics/cbm/c65/c65manual.txt">can be read here</a> (all 660K of it). <a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/Ultra-rare-Commodore-65-C65-DX64-prototype-working-serial-22-/171673209321?pt=FR_GH_Informatique_Ordinateurs_Ordinateurs_de_Collection&hash=item27f88549e9">One just sold on eBay for €20,500.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.147080Mon, 16 Feb 2015 09:35:51 -0800slogger"I'm so thirsty, my legs are frail. What am I to do?"http://www.metafilter.com/146696/Im%2Dso%2Dthirsty%2Dmy%2Dlegs%2Dare%2Dfrail%2DWhat%2Dam%2DI%2Dto%2Ddo
<a href="http://globalgamejam.org/2015/games/tokyo-1923">Tokyo 1923, the video game.</a> <blockquote>Based on Akira Kurosawa's experience with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1923_Great_Kant%C5%8D_earthquake">Great Kanto Earthquake</a> - as written in his <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something_Like_an_Autobiography">"Something Like an Autobiography"</a> -, Tokyo 1923 immerses the player in the midst of a catastrophe and tries to bring up questions about solidarity, desperation and moving on after a personal or global tragedy.</blockquote> "You play as a young girl and boy, survivors who work together to help out others in need amid the earthquake's aftermath." <small>[<a href="http://killscreendaily.com/articles/tokyo-1923/">killscreendaily.com</a>]</small>
<small>Screenshot: [<a href="http://globalgamejam.org/sites/default/files/styles/game_content__wide/public/games/screenshots/1_104.png?itok=9-jKz7bE">1</a>] [<a href="http://globalgamejam.org/sites/default/files/styles/game_content__wide/public/games/screenshots/2_67.png?itok=5t1nUNvv">2</a>] </small><small>You can download Tokyo 1923 for free here [<a href="http://ggj.s3.amazonaws.com/games/2015/01/27/1406/Source.zip">zip</a>] [<a href="http://ggj.s3.amazonaws.com/games/2015/01/27/1358/Tokyo%201923.zip">exe</a>]. You can also <a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/34515396/Tokyo%201923web/index.html">play it in your browser here</a>.</small> tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.146696Tue, 03 Feb 2015 11:03:12 -0800Fizz10 PRINT "THE SIMPSONS"http://www.metafilter.com/146673/10%2DPRINT%2DTHE%2DSIMPSONS
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIZ_gDOrzGk">Last night's Simpsons intro in all its pixelated 8-bit chiptune glory</a> was a sight to behold and not to be missed tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.146673Mon, 02 Feb 2015 16:37:47 -0800mathowieChatty checkout! Try to escape this conversation...http://www.metafilter.com/145633/Chatty%2Dcheckout%2DTry%2Dto%2Descape%2Dthis%2Dconversation
<a href="http://nes.amorphia-apparel.com">NES My Life</a> "Mundane everyday challenges (such as finding a job, dealing with ultra conservative relatives, or deleting unwanted dick pics on a dating site) envisioned as classic black box retro 8bit Nintendo games." [via <a href='http://projects.metafilter.com/4455/NES-My-Life'>mefi projects</a>] tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.145633Fri, 26 Dec 2014 07:47:53 -0800joseph conrad is fully awesome"Donkey Kong Variations"http://www.metafilter.com/143454/Donkey%2DKong%2DVariations
<a href="http://www.avclub.com/article/someone-covered-tom-waits-mule-variations-using-8--210312">Someone covered Tom Waits' <em>Mule Variations</em> using 8-bit sounds.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.143454Thu, 09 Oct 2014 14:14:13 -0800AlonzoMosleyFBII don't mind stealin' bloophttp://www.metafilter.com/143381/I%2Ddont%2Dmind%2Dstealin%2Dbloop
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLMkp-6W9uI">8-bit Hunger Strike</a> <small>[SLYT]</small> tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.143381Tue, 07 Oct 2014 08:47:03 -0800ChrysostomRIP Douglas E. Smithhttp://www.metafilter.com/142741/RIP%2DDouglas%2DE%2DSmith
Douglas E. Smith, creator of the classic 8-bit computer game Lode Runner, which got a second life as one of HudsonSoft's most iconic Famicom titles in Japan, <a href="http://www.polygon.com/2014/9/13/6144291/douglas-smith-creator-of-1980s-pc-gaming-milestone-lode-runner-dies">has died at the age of 57</a>. An <a href="http://www.loderunnerclassic.com">official mobile version</a> of the game is available for iOS, Android and Windows Phone. Computer users can play the Apple IIGS version <a href="http://www.virtualapple.org/loadrunnerdisk.html">in a browser window</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.142741Sun, 14 Sep 2014 19:50:56 -0800JHarris"ROUND 2. FIGHT!"http://www.metafilter.com/141725/ROUND%2D2%2DFIGHT
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMpZrta2Cwc">Sounds From a Fight Scene in 'The Matrix Reloaded' Replaced With Old School 8-Bit Video Game Sounds <small>[SLYT]</small></a> tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.141725Thu, 07 Aug 2014 08:46:28 -0800FizzWe Built This City On Rock And ROMhttp://www.metafilter.com/135953/We%2DBuilt%2DThis%2DCity%2DOn%2DRock%2DAnd%2DROM
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/8BitRenditions?feature=watch">8 Bit Renditions</a>: hear the classics as if they were composed for the NES!</br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MTh1ymM2Is&feature=c4-overview-vl&list=PL83B71FF8448566E8">While My Guitar Gently Weeps</a></br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCoManaaTu0&list=PL83B71FF8448566E8">Fly Like An Eagle</a></br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou7eLl-2v2M&feature=c4-overview-vl&list=PL83B71FF8448566E8">We Built This City</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJv5ppyVz6s&list=PL83B71FF8448566E8">Are We The Waiting / St. Jimmy</a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWIXZJZcrY8&list=PL8E0A849066A8DB4C&feature=c4-overview-vl">Sweet Transvestite</a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFiHQ9LFIjU&list=PLF31171C53398E371&feature=c4-overview-vl">Somebody To Love</a>
and more... tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.135953Thu, 23 Jan 2014 18:29:36 -0800the man of twists and turnsPRESS STARThttp://www.metafilter.com/133306/PRESS%2DSTART
8 Bit Cinema: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y16uKeTuBWQ&feature=c4-overview-vl&list=PL1AXWu-gGX6LNsfQ-KkeGPxL76CFONTom">The Shining</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeteGCeo0EM&list=PL1AXWu-gGX6LNsfQ-KkeGPxL76CFONTom">Finding Nemo</a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5uDcj3mMd8&feature=c4-overview-vl&list=PL1AXWu-gGX6LNsfQ-KkeGPxL76CFONTom">The Dark Knight</a>
All from <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/CineFix">CineFix</a>, <a href="http://www.thefoxisblack.com/2013/10/28/watch-the-shining-told-in-the-style-of-an-8-bit-video-game/">via</a> tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.133306Mon, 28 Oct 2013 19:17:52 -0800the man of twists and turnsA WAY TOO SCARY GAMEhttp://www.metafilter.com/132347/A%2DWAY%2DTOO%2DSCARY%2DGAME
<a href="http://heylookatmygames.com/catachresis">Catachresis</a> is an 8-bit-looking indie flash game of cosmic horror and some bureaucracy and bickering with colleagues. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1yeffY2wPs">The launch trailer</a> provides a selection of the reactions you will likely experience while playing it. tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.132347Thu, 26 Sep 2013 16:17:38 -0800Joakim ZieglerANSI to infinity and beyond!http://www.metafilter.com/131461/ANSI%2Dto%2Dinfinity%2Dand%2Dbeyond
Text-art collective <a href="http://blocktronics.org">Blocktronics</a> released it's 3rd pack last night called <a href="http://sixteencolors.net/pack/blocktronics_space_invaders">"Space Invaders"</a> with over 100 pieces of text-based <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_art">ANSI</a>/<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_art">ASCII</a> art tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.131461Thu, 29 Aug 2013 18:36:32 -0800livejamieBlinking lights convey so much fillerhttp://www.metafilter.com/126933/Blinking%2Dlights%2Dconvey%2Dso%2Dmuch%2Dfiller
<a href="http://visualpunker.tumblr.com/tagged/fui">Futuristic User Interfaces in video games, animes, and movies.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.126933Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:07:44 -0800TaftSheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee..................http://www.metafilter.com/119696/Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
<a href="http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6821163/the-wire-rpg">The Wire, summarized, as an 8-bit videogame.</a> Does what it says in pixelated graphics. tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.119696Fri, 07 Sep 2012 07:34:32 -0800PapaLoboIt was a dark and pixellated night.http://www.metafilter.com/117886/It%2Dwas%2Da%2Ddark%2Dand%2Dpixellated%2Dnight
<a href="http://slacktory.com/2012/07/8-bit-illustrations-of-8-short-stories-opening-lines/">8-bit illustrations of opening lines to classic short stories by Kafka, Bukowski, Barthelme, and others.</a> Oliver Miller, the creator of the series, writes: <em>I... love short stories. I was an English major, and then I got an MFA in writing. Before that, I was a nerd who huddled in a basement, with his nerd friends, clicking with a mouse to play Bard's Tale II. So basically, making 8-bit drawings of short stories encapsulates my whole life and, I hope, yours as well.</em> tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.117886Sat, 14 Jul 2012 11:12:50 -0800Cash4LeadHead like I/Ohttp://www.metafilter.com/117042/Head%2Dlike%2DIO
<a href="http://inversephase.bandcamp.com/album/pretty-eight-machine">Pretty Eight Machine</a> - an 8-Bit rendition of the Nine Inch Nails album. tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.117042Sun, 17 Jun 2012 12:02:45 -0800ArtwSing us a Song to Keep us Warm, There's Such a Chillhttp://www.metafilter.com/117015/Sing%2Dus%2Da%2DSong%2Dto%2DKeep%2Dus%2DWarm%2DTheres%2DSuch%2Da%2DChill
<em></em>In the wake of their grunge-y breakout hit <a href="http://vimeo.com/1461741">"Creep"</a> and the success of sophomore record <i><a href="http://citizeninsane.eu/bends.html">The Bends</a></i>, Thom Yorke and the rest of <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060615023039/http://www.therestisnoise.com/2004/04/mahler_1.html">Radiohead</a> were under pressure to deliver once more.
So they shut themselves away inside the echoing halls of <a href="http://www.avclub.com/articles/basement-tapes-and-cabin-fever-24-unconventional-r,50424/">a secluded 16th century manor</a> and got to work.
What emerged from that crumbling Elizabethan castle fifteen years ago today was a shockingly ambitious masterpiece of progressive rock, a visionary concept album that explored <a href="http://www.citizeninsane.eu/s1998-03RayGun.htm">the "fridge buzz" of modernity</a> -- alienation, social disconnection, existential dread, <a href="http://www.explorefaith.org/resources/music/ok_computer_by_radiohead.php">the impersonal hum of technology</a> -- through a mosaic of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qJlMRx0S48">challenging</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z_NvVMUcG8">innovative</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbtZyuOMdHI">eerily</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbZfsz7c11Q">beautiful</a> music unlike anything else at the time.
Tentatively called <i>Ones and Zeroes</i>, then <i>Your Home May Be at Risk If You Do Not Keep Up Payments</i>, the band finally settled on <i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4GsSCfOeAk">OK Computer</a></i>, an appropriately enigmatic title for this <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/8219786/Radioheads-OK-Computer-named-best-album-of-the-past-25-years.html">acclaimed</a> harbinger of millennial angst. For more, you can watch the retrospective <i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD2F3B4BB14034A1C">OK Computer: A Classic Album Under Review</a></i> for a track-by-track rundown, or the unsettling documentary <i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOuDST1uF20">Meeting People is Easy</a></i> for a look at how the album's whirlwind tour nearly gave Yorke <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20071012181123/http://rollingstone.com/news/story/5939919/making_music_that_matters/">a nervous breakdown</a>. Or look inside for more details and cool interpretations of all the tracks -- including <a href="http://metatalk.metafilter.com/21788/Whos-in-for-a-new-MeFi-Music-Album-Challenge">an upcoming MeFi Music Challenge!</a> <b>Album tributes and cover versions:</b>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxLnu4PhQNQ">Quinton Sung deftly recreates the whole album in 8-bit chiptune style</a>
<a href="http://stereogum.com/okx">Stereogum's OKX: a multi-artist tribute</a> (<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/62834/OK-Computers-10-year-tribute">previ</a>-<a href="http://projects.metafilter.com/1019/OK-X-A-Tribute-to-Radioheads-OK-Computer">ously</a>)
<a href="http://grooveshark.com/#!/album/Strung+Out+On+Ok+Computer/1012864">Strung Out on OK Computer: The Vitamin String Quartet's classical cover of the album</a>
Rockabye Baby! Lullaby Renditions of Radiohead: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXsrXu72ezc">Airbag</a> - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XZp4l2rEyU">Paranoid Android</a> - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex-F__CvSAU">Subterranean Homesick Alien</a> - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9xSppi_Ej8">Let Down</a> - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7rAJK5RRCc">Karma Police</a> - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvFD2wfKc18">No Surprises</a>
Amazingly choreographed renditions from the University of Arizona marching band: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZldpJUpgI4&t=1m42s">Airbag</a> - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZldpJUpgI4&t=3m36s">Paranoid Android</a> - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXX2TMOPeLg">Fitter Happier</a> - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXX2TMOPeLg&t=3m42s">Karma Police</a> - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnLL5yYN8Dw">Exit Music (From a Film)</a> - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnLL5yYN8Dw&t=3m20s">Lucky</a>
<b>Individual tracks:</b>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgE29oRPhrI">"Airbag"</a> (<a href="http://citizeninsane.eu/airbag.html">notes</a>)
<blockquote>Inspired (along with <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BUSnGF0mLo">several</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CT_IF8tQx4">other</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ0D9IwTlXc">songs</a>) by a car accident Yorke and his girlfriend had been in years before; muses on "the feeling you get when you realise that you've just missed having a serious accident, and the feeling of elation that follows."</blockquote>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF8khJ7P4Wg">"Paranoid Android"</a> (<a href="http://citizeninsane.eu/paranoidandroid.html">notes</a>)
<blockquote>The most ambitious track, a mutating six-minute sprawl in the tradition of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" and the Beatles' "Happiness is a Warm Gun" that took the band eighteen months of practice to play live. Rooted in a harrowing experience Yorke had in a druggy Los Angeles club, he later passed the track off as a lark, but <a href="http://www.nme.com/list/150-best-tracks-of-the-past-15-years/248648/article/248787">NME's Luke Lewis (who declared it the best single of the last 15 years) objects</a>:
<blockquote>Far from penning a universal hymn of woe, Thom Yorke claims he picked the title as a self-mocking "joke", and says the lyrics are "not personal at all." Bassist Colin Greenwood remembers the writing process being "a laugh", the result of "getting wasted together". When the band came to actually play the song live, according to guitarist Ed O' Brien the whole thing was "completely hilarious" and had them "pissing ourselves as we played". Anyone would think they'd written 'My Humps', not one of the towering rock songs of the 20th Century.
And yet... they protest too much. I have a theory. I think that Radiohead knew they'd written an era-defining masterwork, but - in a very British way - felt embarrassed by the grandeur of their creation, and ever since then have bashfully tried to make light of it. They're not fooling anyone. [...] Anyone with ears and a brain can tell that this is a song about the horror of modernity. Thom Yorke surveys the whole grand sweep of humanity and finds he's disgusted by all of it. [...]
Besides, this idea that 'Paranoid Android' was intended as a joke - a sozzled attempt to rewrite Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody' - doesn't quite tally with Yorke's own account of how he wrote the lyrics. They came to him at 5am following a hateful night out amongst coked-up music biz types in Los Angeles.
"I was trying to sleep when I literally heard these voices that wouldn't leave me alone," he recalled in 1997. "Basically 'Paranoid Android' is just about chaos, chaos, utter fucking chaos."
When pressed to reveal more about the "kicking squealing Gucci little" piggies who inspired the song, Yorke described them as "inhuman... you do often see demons in people's eyes. They're like fucking devils.... Everyone was trying to get something out of me. I felt like my own self was collapsing in the presence of it."
Hmm. So not quite dashed off as a rib-tickling novelty wig-out then? Lest you doubt that 'Paranoid Android' burns with a core of genuine misanthropy, note the hex on the single sleeve. The ensuing world tour was called Against Demons. 'Paranoid Android' is a song about seeing evil in the world around you, and being absolutely terrified by it.</blockquote>
Don't miss <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-cfWYN0cZI">the phenomenal cover version</a> compiled from dozens of amateur YouTube videos (<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/104653/kickingscreamingguccilittlepiggy">previously</a>). Other notable takes:
- <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nTo8rjo-lM">Weezer</a>
- <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVvdjEb0QdA">Mike Massé acoustic guitar</a> (<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/102584/How-to-Disappear-Completely">previously</a>)
- <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE8KOTGKAok">Christopher O'Riley on solo piano</a>
- <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWkOxYKNZOs">jazz pianist Brad Mehldau's 9-minute interpretation</a>
- <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaP1WzwYXBk">Male</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5N0mVvqvpE">female</a> a capella
- <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COyaucbunJg">early demo version</a>
- <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJbHUVxVZ9k">Easy Star All-Stars reggae version</a>
- <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMT3fxpocXE">Sia Furler's soul version</a>
- <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZldpJUpgI4&t=3m36s">University of Arizona marching band</a></blockquote>
- <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkUTofxUJLM">Big band arrangement</a>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1tQFX_9ct0">"Subterranean Homesick Alien"</a> (<a href="http://citizeninsane.eu/subterranean.html">notes</a>)
<blockquote>Namechecks Bob Dylan's Subterranean Homesick Blues and evokes the fanciful <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_poetry">"Martian poetry"</a> style to take an anthropologist's eye to mankind's troubles. The need for vintage soft keyboards has led to the track not being played on live tours in the last decade.</blockquote>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMqXj-eVCjI">"Exit Music (For a Film)"</a> (<a href="http://citizeninsane.eu/exitmusic.html">notes</a>)
<blockquote>Written for the end credits of <i>Romeo+Juliet</i> and partially inspired by Zeffirelli's 1968 version, which had moved a 13-year-old Yorke to tears and wonder why the two lovers never tried to just run away from their families. The intimate vocals were recorded on the manor's stone steps.</blockquote>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z_NvVMUcG8">"Let Down"</a> (<a href="http://citizeninsane.eu/letdown.html">notes</a>)
<blockquote>A melodic musing on the disappointment of glib sentimentality promoted in the media; guitarist Jonny Greenwood plays in a different time signature to amplify the feeling of disconnection and disorientation. For aural effect, it was recorded in the spacious manor ballroom at 3 a.m.</blockquote>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBH97ma9YiI">"Karma Police"</a> (<a href="http://citizeninsane.eu/karmapolice.html">notes</a>)
<blockquote>Named for a band in-joke about the "karma police" nabbing anyone who misbehaved, equated with the overly regimented atmosphere in large organizations. Originally passed on by Marilyn Manson, the concept for the backseat music video led to a hairy situation where Yorke was stuck in a car leaking carbon monoxide fumes (referenced later in "No Surprises").</blockquote>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EoukRWQ-ec">"Fitter Happier"</a> (<a href="http://citizeninsane.eu/fitterhappier.html">notes</a>)
<blockquote>A bleak piece dominated by increasingly surreal robotic pronouncements on ways to live a better life (voiced by the same synthesizer Stephen Hawking uses). Yorke claimed the list of imperatives was "the most upsetting thing I've ever written."</blockquote>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnRDDmXupA4">"Electioneering"</a> (<a href="http://citizeninsane.eu/electioneering.html">notes</a>)
<blockquote>Late '90s Britain was swept by the landslide victory of Tony Blair's "New Labour" party, but this angry broadside held no illusions about modern politics. Inspired by both the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poll_Tax_Riots">Poll Tax Riots</a> that helped remove Margaret Thatcher from power and the gladhanding "rope line" atmosphere that dogged the band's American tours.</blockquote>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbtZyuOMdHI">"Climbing Up the Walls"</a> (<a href="http://citizeninsane.eu/climbingupthewalls.html">notes</a>)
<blockquote>An eerie track from the perspective of various creeping horrors, from serial killers to insane asylums to "the monster in the closet." Prompted by Yorke's experience working part-time in a sanitarium emptied of many dangerous patients by Conservative budget cuts. Incorporates a string section modeled on Krzysztof Penderecki's nerve-wracking <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzOb3UhPmig">"Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima."</a></blockquote>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqkgpHnp7Tg">"No Surprises"</a> (<a href="http://citizeninsane.eu/nosurprises.html">notes</a>)
<blockquote>The first song recorded for the album (and on the first take). <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbZfsz7c11Q">The music video</a>, involving Yorke locked into a <a href="http://boingboing.net/images/xeni/2001-a-space-odyssey-pic-001_0f16.jpg"><i>2001</i>-esque space helmet</a> slowly filling with water, was <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLYo9ib88Ps">somewhat disturbing to make</a>, even with special effects tricks to speed up the submersion sequence.</blockquote>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tejkhFyjoGE">"Lucky"</a> (<a href="http://citizeninsane.eu/lucky.html">notes</a>)
<blockquote>Recorded in five hours for a charity benefiting Bosnian War victims, the band considered this track their best. Brian Eno agreed, calling it "the most beautiful song I've heard for a long, long time."</blockquote>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erEHEFbFlSU">"The Tourist"</a> (<a href="http://citizeninsane.eu/thetourist.html">notes</a>)
<blockquote>A slower, spacier closing track written by Greenwood as a reaction the breakneck pace of the other tracks. Thematically linked to the rampant pace of technology as well as to the opening track's car crash, implying a kind of Joycean circularity to the album.</blockquote>
<b>MeFi Music Challenge:</b>
Recently announced and still open to applications is next month's Music Challenge -- multiple cover versions of every <i>OK Computer</i> track by Mefites of all stripes. <a href="http://metatalk.metafilter.com/21788/Whos-in-for-a-new-MeFi-Music-Album-Challenge">Discussion is over in MetaTalk</a>; here's the set list for now:
<blockquote><b>Airbag:</b> unSane, The Great Big Mulp, naju, davejay, Corduroy, bedhead
<b>Paranoid Android:</b> InfidelZombie, chococat, Ardiril, Jofus, ignignokt, ZsigE
<b>Subterranean Homesick Alien:</b> snsranch, dobie, god hates math, Rube R. Nekker, burnmp3s, dismas
<b>Exit Music (For A Film):</b> askmeaboutLOOM, koeselitz, th3ph17, two lights above the sea, O9scar, the_very_hungry_caterpillar
<b>Let Down:</b> dubold, pyramid termite, The World Famous, curious nu, fleacircus, theichibun
<b>Karma Police:</b> uncleozzy, tigrefacile, erikgrande, Acari, michaelh, lazaruslong, modernserf
<b>Fitter Happier:</b> sleepy pete, azarbayejani, flapjax at midnite, Listener, threeants, freya_lamb
<b>Electioneering:</b> TwoWordReview, motty, muhonnin, roboton666, not_on_display, MrVisible
<b>Climbing Up The Walls:</b> Doleful Creature, Elmore, supercres, Captain Najork, Johnny Wallflower, Sebmojo
<b>No Surprises:</b> cortex, Grangousier, John Cohen, visual mechanic, OrangeGloves, the jam
<b>Lucky:</b> grog, cmoj, googly, idiopath, Karlos the Jackal, greenish
<b>The Tourist:</b> cathodeheart, qnarf, sinnesloeschen, Philosopher Dirtbike, evoque, zix</blockquote>
<b>Other:</b>
<a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4361204116670285583&sourceid=docidfeed&hl=en-GB">An entire OK Computer live show</a> (<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/57260/Radiohead-Live-OK-Computer-Tour">previously</a>)
<a href="http://www.coverdude.com/cd-covers/33026-radiohead-ok-computer-part-1.html">Liner notes and artwork</a> (<a href="http://www.coverdude.com/cd-covers/33025-radiohead-ok-computer-part-2.html">part 2</a>)
<a href="http://www.angelfire.com/music/rh/anaok.htm">The album's cryptic liner art analyzed</a>
<a href="http://pitchfork.com/news/40032-take-cover-radiohead-artist-stanley-donwood/">Interview with cover designer Stanley Donwood</a>
<a href="http://puddlegum.net/radiohead-01-and-10/">Were <em>OK Computer</em> and <em>In Rainbows</em> meant to be played over each other?</a>
<a href="http://www.readability.com/read?url=http%3A//www.angelfire.com/weird/crazydiamond/Radioheadeliot.html">Radiohead and T.S. Eliot</a>
Not from OKC, but <a href="http://www.gastónviñas.com.ar/2+2=5.htm">this creepy animation based on "2+2=5"</a> is worth watching (<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/90430/Gaston-Vinas">previously</a>) as is <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXlzci1rKNM">the "Homeless Mustard" cover of "Creep"</a> (<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/87416/I-wish-I-was-special">previously</a>) tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.117015Sat, 16 Jun 2012 12:06:13 -0800Rhaomi